B Impact Report

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AKO Capital

Fund Management, European and Global Equity Investors
Certified Since: January, 2021
Location: London, London, United Kingdom
Sector: Service with Minor Environmental Footprint

Overall B Impact Scoreinfo_outline

95.0

The B Impact Scores are being compared against all businesses that have completed the B Impact Assessment

www.akocapital.com

Founded in 2005 by Nicolai Tangen, AKO Capital is one of Europe’s leading investment partnerships. AKO believes that the best way to create strong risk-adjusted return over time is to own the best assets for the long term. Through a rigorous and proprietary bottom-up investment process they aim to build a portfolio that combines excellent economic characteristics and great management. AKO has a long-term investor base that includes many of the world’s leading endowments and charitable foundations.
AKO believes that:
• Long-term thinking is critical to their success. When investing in great companies the best outcome is achieved by having a long investment horizon.
• Any long-term relationship must be based on full transparency. AKO is open to their investors about what they do, why and what the outcome is – good or bad.
• Commitment to people is key to success as the strength of the results in the long run will reflect the strength of the team.
• Continuous improvement is crucial for the firm to continue to deliver strong results.
• Only by consistently dealing fairly with all their stakeholders can the companies safeguard high returns over time. Therefore, to best serve the interests of their clients, integrating ESG factors is a key element of AKO’s investment approach.

Impact Area Scoresinfo_outline

info_outlineOverall B Impact Score

To certify as a B Corp, a company must achieve a minimum verified score of 80 points on the B Impact Assessment. The B Impact Assessment asks questions about how the day-to-day operations of a company create positive impact for the company’s workers, community, and environment. Additionally, companies can earn further points if their overall business model can be shown to create positive social and environmental impact as well, qualifying the company for specific Impact Business Model points.

Scores for Certified B Corporations are verified by the non-profit B Lab.

info_outlineImpact Area Scores

The questions in the B Impact Assessment are organized into five Impact Areas: Governance, Workers, Community, Environment, and Customers. Click into a Impact Area to see topics covered in each. Topics in blue are Impact Business Models associated with that Impact Area where the company has earned additional credit. Due to rounding, displayed totals may not add up exactly.

The B Impact Assessment is customized to a company's size, sector, and geographic market.  However, within those parameters, there are still questions included in the B Impact Assessment that might not be relevant to a particular company. In cases where a question is not applicable, the potential points available for that question are instead earned based on the performance of the company on the other topics relevant to the stakeholder and summed up as "N/A points." Likewise, a score of N/A for Workers means that the company is a sole proprietor or partnership with no full-time staff, and a score of 0 or N/A for Customers means that the company does not have a specific Customer-focused Impact Business Model.

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Each year, B Lab releases lists honoring the top-performing Certified B Corps in each Impact Area and overall, broken down by size, on the annual Best for the World lists.

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B Lab may determine that a company should make additional material beyond their B Impact Report transparent in order for the public to be able to evaluate the company’s overall impact. This additional transparency may cover participation in a controversial industry, information shared on the company’s Disclosure Questionnaire, or simply a company’s relationship to a larger complex entity. Public companies and wholly-owned subsidiaries are required to make their full B Impact Assessments transparent to achieve B Corp Certification.